According to tradition, Brian Boru, ' High King ' of Ireland ( d. at the Battle of Clontarf, 1014 CE ) played the harp, as did many of the gentry in the country during the period of the Gaelic Lordship of Ireland ( ended c. 1607 CE with the " Flight of the Earls " following the Elizabethan Wars ).

* Flight of the Earls

* Flight of the Earls

* 1607 – Flight of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland.

* September 14 – Flight of the Earls: Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O ' Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, flee Ireland for Spain with ninety followers to avoid capture by the English crown, never to return.

* July 20 – Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, dies in Rome, thus concluding the Flight of the Earls from Ireland.

O ' Donnell royal or chiefly power was finally ended in what was then the newly created County Donegal in September 1607, following the Flight of the Earls from near Rathmullan.

Full control over the new County Donegal was only achieved after the Flight of the Earls in September 1607.

It was founded around 1620 when the townlands in the area were leased by an English ecclesiastical lawyer, Dr. Alan Cooke, from the Archbishop of Armagh, who had been granted the lands after the Flight of the Earls.

This land was confiscated by King James I after the Flight of the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell in 1607 and a series of Rebellions in the area which saw the native landlords ousted from their holdings.

Following the English victory in the Nine Years ' War ( 1594 – 1603 ), and particularly with the " Flight of the Earls " in 1607, the traditional Gaelic Irish nobility was displaced in Ireland.

*" Comin ' Home Again " / " Flight Of Earls " ( 1990 )

After the Battle of Kinsale in 1601 and the subsequent Flight of the Earls, some dozens of the old Gaelic aristocracy scattered throughout Catholic Europe.

As a young man Eoghan left Ireland, one of the ninety-nine involved in the Flight of the Earls escaping the English conquest of his native Ulster.

The Flight of the Earls, one of the most celebrated-and lamented-episodes in Irish history, occurred on 14 September 1607, when O ' Neill and O ' Donnell embarked at midnight at Rathmullan on Lough Swilly on a voyage bound for Spain.

Category: Flight of the Earls

He took part in the Flight of the Earls in 1607, when Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O ' Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, together with more than ninety of their family and followers, the chief of the Gaelic and Catholic resistance in Ireland, fled to Europe.

Irish historian Marc Caball on the other hand claims that " early modern Irish nationalism " began to be established after the Flight of the Earls ( 1607 ), based on the concepts of " the indivisibility of Gaelic cultural integrity, territorial sovereignty, and the interlinking of Gaelic identity with profession of the Roman Catholic faith ".

In September 1607, he delivered to Cecil his report of the Flight of the Earls, a seminal event in Irish history and, before long, had travelled into the absent earls ' territories to lay indictments against them there.

After the Flight of the Earls in 1607, Domhnall Ballagh Ó Catháin, Chief of the Ó Catháin ( and at one time knighted by the English Crown ), was captured and sent to the Tower of London, where he died in 1626.

The Flight of the Earls () took place on 14 September 1607, when Hugh Ó Neill of Tír Eóghain, Rory Ó Donnell of Tír Chonaill and about ninety followers left Ireland for mainland Europe.

The Flight of the Earls was a watershed in Irish history, as the ancient Gaelic aristocracy of Ulster went into permanent exile.

President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, arrives to unveil a statue depicting The Flight of the Earls at Rathmullan on 4 September 2007.

The 400th anniversary of the Flight of the Earls was marked on 14 September 2007, throughout Donegal, including a regatta of tall ships, fireworks, lectures, and conferences.

Following the Flight of the Earls ( 1607 ) the Crown confiscated almost the entire county from its Irish aristocratic feudal owners.

The extension of English law into Ulster became possible and led in part to the Flight of the Earls in 1607.

: Not to be confused with the 1607 Flight of the Earls.

Following the defeat of the Gaelic armies of the Nine Years ' War, the " Flight of the Earls " took place in 1607.

On 14 September 1607, with the discovery that he and Tyrone were to be arrested and imprisoned, both Earls set sail from Lough Swilly with their families and followers for eventual exile in Spanish Flanders and Rome ( see Flight of the Earls ).

Nearby Tullyhogue Fort was the crowning place of the kings of Ulster until the Flight of the Earls in 1607.

The heads of the families left for Catholic Europe in 1607, an event known as the Flight of the Earls.

The main effect of this was the dispossession of formerly powerful Irish clan leaders, such as the O ' Neills and the O ' Donnells, who fled the country in the Flight of the Earls in 1607.

The power of the Sweeneys as Lords of Fanad ended with the Flight of the Earls in 1607 and the subsequent plantation of Ulster, though they continued to hold some lands in Fanad as proprietors until the 1641 rising, following which all remaining Sweeney lands were confiscated.

Rory then unfortunately joined in the Flight of the Earls in 1607, which led to the title becoming attainted in 1614, and Tyrconnell and Ulster being colonised in the Plantation of Ulster.

This represented a huge cull of the Ulster's, Gaelic Irish and Anglo-Irish elite, more significant than that which occurred in 1607 with the Flight of the Earls.

This control was perfected upon the Flight of the Earls in 1607.

The hijackers on American Airlines Flight 77 were led by Hani Hanjour, who piloted the aircraft into the Pentagon.

However in June, just before the scheduled resumption of civilian rule, a group of young armed forces officers, led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings, mounted yet another coup.

The first incident occurred on 21 February 1973, during a period of tension led to the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War in October that year, when Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by Israeli F-4 jets over the Sinai Peninsula.

Inside the vehicle, authorities found a letter written by Mohamed Atta, a hijacker aboard American Airlines Flight 11 ; maps of Washington, D. C. and New York City ; a cashier's check made out to a Phoenix, Arizona flight school ; four drawings of a Boeing 757 cockpit ; a box cutter ; and a page with notes and phone numbers, which contained evidence that led investigators to San Diego.

The team of hijackers on United Airlines Flight 175 was led by Marwan al-Shehhi, from the United Arab Emirates.

The hijacking of Flight 93 was led by Ziad Jarrah, a member of al-Qaeda.

In the case of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, the life jackets saved many people but also led to many deaths when passengers inflated their vests prematurely.

* December 31 – A coup d ' état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the PNDC led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.

This spot was never filled, and consequently United Flight 93 had four hijackers, not five, which is believed to have led in part to the success of the passenger revolt.

General Archie Old, the Fifteenth Air Force commander, led a flight of three B-52 Stratofortresses in a non-stop around-the-world flight termed " Power Flight " in just 45 hours, 19 minutes.

The crash of Flight 90, coupled with Air Florida's high financial leverage and reliance on foreign currency trading for profits, led the company to declare bankruptcy and cease operations on July 3, 1984, despite an effort by new head Donald Lloyd-Jones ( an alumnus of American Airlines ) to save the company.

The success of the Microsoft Flight Simulator series has led to Guinness World Records awarding the series seven world records in the Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008.

The town was also the site of the March 10, 1989 crash of Air Ontario Flight 1363, which killed 24 people and led to the Moshansky Inquiry on airline safety.

* Free Flight ( band ), an American jazz band led by Jim Walker

Walt Disney was inspired by Rimsky Korsakov's operatic piece, Flight of the Bumblebee to have a bumblebee featured in his musical Fantasia and also sound as if it was flying in all parts of the theatre – the unsuccessful experimentation led to the music being excluded from the film and the eventual invention of " surround sound ".

The RAF section was led by Flight Lieutenant Weaver who was decommissioned in August 2011 and the role has now passed to Flying Officer Harris and Pilot Officer Lambert.

On 19 August 2009, MacAskill rejected an application by Libya to transfer to their custody Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted of the Pan Am Flight 103 bomb that killed 270 people, acknowledging that " the American families and Government had an expectation or were led to believe that there would be no prisoner transfer.

Atari, Inc had a PLATO account and Panther is said to be the origin of Battlezone while airfight led up to Sublogic's Microsoft Flight Simulator.

* John Ferruggio, led the evacuation of Pan Am Flight 93 in 1970

Poor eyesight led him to desk jobs in the RAF intelligence branch where he rose — as a " Wingless Wonder ", as officers who were not qualified to wear pilot's wings were called — to the rank of Flight Lieutenant ; he was then appointed Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair.

A somewhat similar problem led to a cockpit window being blown out of British Airways Flight 5390.

It was a huge cross-over success, appealing to both children and adult readers, which led James Gurney to write and illustrate three more books called Dinotopia: The World Beneath, Dinotopia: First Flight and most recently Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara.

Experimentally equipped with three narrow-chord wings and a more powerful engine, the Pup led to the Triplane, which was used by just four squadrons of the RNAS during 1917, but became well known for its startling fighting qualities, put to best use by Raymond Collishaw's famous ' Black Flight ' of ' Naval 10 ' ( No. 10 Squadron RNAS ).

Her 80th birthday in 2006 was marked by a large flypast of 40 planes led by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and culminating with the Red Arrows.